- From: Martin Dürst via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 09:23:30 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
Re. sharp s (ß) and U+1E9E: The upper-case mapping from ß to SS is not (only) for stability, it is still the rule wherever the ß is actually used. There have been times where U+1E9E was somewhat popular, to the extent that even the Duden (German reference orthography) used it on all caps titles. The availability of the character in Unicode, trickling down to fonts, may eventually be picked up more or less in practice (there is already such a practice currently, but it's very small). Then later it may possibly make it into orthography as a sanctioned variant or even as the 'right thing to do'. But we are a long time away from that state. So the claim "Need to map to 'SS' because there's no upper case for ß" is wrong, but the claim "the correct upper case of ß is 'SS' is nevertheless firmly valid". -- GitHub Notification of comment by duerst Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/issues/68#issuecomment-179727661 using your GitHub account
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